Rubus^l XLI. ROSACE J5. 431 



neath. Flowers few, in short terminal panicles or solitary in the upper 

 axils. Bracts narrow, entire or rarely lobecl. Sepals varying from 2 to 5 

 Fines long, acuminate, softly hairy inside and out. Petals pink, usually erect 

 and shorter than the calyx, rarely longer and spreading. Fruit globular, red, 

 said to be of a pleasant flavour, the carpels rather large and not numerous, gla- 

 brous or slightly hairy. — 33ot. Eeg. t. 496 ; IL ribesifolins, Sieb. PI. Exs.; 

 'R.macrojjodm, Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 557; Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. i. 112; P. 

 Muell. Fragm. iv. 30, and'PL Vict. ii. t. 15; i2, Zaldbrml'uerianm^ Endl. 

 Atakt. t. 35, 



Queensland. Morcton Bay, Traser^ F. Mueller; Rockhampton, Ballachy ; in the 

 interior, on the Marauoa, Mitchell ; plains of the Coudaiuiuc, LeichhardL 



N. S. Wales- Common about Port Jackson, R, Broion, iSieher^ n. 192, and others ; 

 Bine Mouutaius, 3Iiss Atkinson ; lla^tings and JJacleay rivers, Beckler ; New En^dand, C, 

 Stuart. 



Victoria. "Wooded valleys and hanks of streams, common, F. Mueller, 

 Tasmania. Very common In many parts of the colony, e/l D. Snooker, 

 S. Australia. Mount Gamhier and near Adelaide, F. Mueller. 

 The species ranges from S, China to Loochoo, but I have seen no specimens from the 

 tropical regions intervening between that and Australia. 



4. R. rossefolius, Sm. Ic. FL L 60. A shrub, with creeping stolons 

 and erect and weak but scarcely climbing stems, glandular-pubescent or 

 rarely glabrous, armed with straight or more frequently recurved prickles. 

 Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 5, rarely 3 or 7, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely 

 and usually doubly toothed, 1,'2, or even 3 in. long, green and glandular- 

 pubescent on both sides or rarely glabrous, ^lowers white, not numerous, 

 in a short terminal panicle or in the upper axils. Bracts narrow, mostly en- 

 tire. ■ Sepals hoary-tomentose, 3, 4, or rarely 5 lines long, with a long subu- 

 late point. Petals spreading. Fruit ovoid ''or rarely globular, with exceed- 

 ingly numerous small carpels, very little succulent, and said to have a rather 

 ntipleasant resinous flavour.~Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 556 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1783 

 (with double flowers); Hook. Ic. PI. t. 349; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 158; F. 

 Muell. Fragm. iv. 33 ; IL eylanicria, Tratt. ; Ser. in DC. Prod. ii. 556. 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, F, Mueller aTid others i Broad Sound and Mount Elliott, 

 ballachy ^ ^ 



N. S, Wales. HawkcsLurv, Hunter's, and Patcrson rivers, R. Brown ; Bhie ^loun- 

 <?nis, Mis, Atkinson; northward to New England, C, Stuart; Clarence and Hastings 

 rivers, Beckler; southward to lllawarra, Shepherd; and Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 



Victoria. "Wooded valleys, Broadribb and Snowy rivers,/, Mueller. 



Ahe species is widely spread over tlic warmer regions of Africa and Asia. 



, 5. R, Moorei, F. Muelh in Trans. Phil. Lid. VicL ii. 67, and Fragm. 

 }^- 29. A tall scrainblino- slirub, tlie branches and petioles glabrous or 

 loosely tomentose, with numerous small retlexed prickles. Leaves digitate, 

 ^^■ith 5 petiolulate leaflets, ovate-lanceolate, acutely acunimate, 3 to 4 in. long, 

 and bordered by regular prickly teetb in the glabrous or slightly pubescent 

 specimens ; in the more tomcntose ones shorter, broader in proportion, more 

 coriaceous, with sliorter teeth, glabrous above, softly velvety or villous under- 

 neath. Flowers white, unisexual or polygamous, iu loose axillary racemes or 

 jaceme-like panicles. Bracts small, entire. Calyx pubescent, very spreading, 

 ^^e segments ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 Hues long. Fruit (which I have 

 ^ot seen) said to be dark-red and insipid. 



